Hide Folders is an innovative software application
which enables you to password protect all the private information
on your hard drive. You can swiftly make your files and folders inaccessible,
invisible or protect them from modification or removal. The protected folders
or files are not accessible by users - no matter how they are
trying to get in - locally or from the net. Effective protection
mechanism, intuitive user interface, and set of fine-tuning options
will suit the needs of everyone from novice Windows users to computer
experts. Since 2001, our Hide Folders software products help our
users to hide private files and folders from prying eyes.

No better way to protect a folder or a file as easy
as Hide Folders does!

With Hide Folders you can easily protect
any number of folders and files on your computer. You can select
any file or folder to protect from the program, drag-and-drop the
desired files and folders from Windows Explorer into the Hide Folders
window or protect the file or folder using Windows Explorer
context menu.

Features and benefits

Immediate data protection (protect and unprotect commands are execited in no
time).

4 protection methods available: Hide, Lock, Hide & Lock,
Read Only

NTFS, FAT32, exFAT and FAT volumes are supported.

File masks (wildcards) support.

Unlimited number of folders can be protected at the same time.

No limits on the size of protected data.

Trusted processes support - processes which are permitted to
access the protected data.

Safe mode support - The folders can be hidden even if your computer
is running in safe mode.

Hot keys to manage basic Hide Folders functions.

Command line support of all main Hide Folders functions.

Support of folders named with national language symbols .

Multilingual support, its user interface
supports different languages and can be easily translated to new
languages.

Intuitive and extremely easy-to-use user interface with skins.

Difference from internal Windows data protection features

A lot of advanced users believe that Hide Folders (as well
as any other third party folder protection software) is useless
because Windows has integrated file and folder lock features.

Well, indeed, you can lock folders with Windows and this
folder will be inaccessible by the other (unauthorized) users. But
there are some annoying limitations that you should be aware of:

Windows allows you to lock files and folders on NTFS volumes
only. FAT volumes are not supported.

It is impossible to hide folder or file with standard Windows
facilities. Only file and folder lock is possible.

There is no way to make folder invisible but accessible which
is helpful for different security tasks like logging, private
data recording, backing up etc.

A system administrator can easily get access to the locked folders
and files.

Some Windows home editions don't have user interface to protect
files and folders.

Windows does not allow setting password for protected data. It authenticates
users at logon. So if you share your
account with the other users, then you can't exploit Windows
folder protection features.

It takes some time and user qualification to manage access control in Windows.